Tag Archives: Swarms

The Israeli attack to Gaza in mid-May 2021, was probably the first example of using drone swarm technology in the field. I am looking at it only from the technical side leaving out all (most important) aspects of “right vs wrong” usage. Each drone is an autonomous system with its …

The drone sector has evolved in a complex ecosystem including thousands of companies catering from manufacturing to operation, software development for control and for deployment in different fields. According to Forrester, drones are enabling the Digital Automation in the air. The FTI’s report highlights the disruptive impact that drones are …

As drones gained traction, both in the consumer market that has now reached several millions as well as in the business area where drones are really starting to be used and where they are expected to become part of industrial and delivery chains –2.4 million expected to ship in 2023-, …

Selves and Emerging super self We are clearly moving towards mixed teams, humans and machines operating hand in hand, learning from each other. The relation may become as spontaneous as the one experienced today in human teams (I am using the term “team” in a broad sense, including an aggregation …

Area 7 – Machine Swarms Artificial intelligence and advances in processing, including neuromorphic computing, are opening the door to machine awareness. Machines that understand what is going on, why it is happening and what is the purpose. The question whether a machine that is aware is also perceiving itself as …

In the technologies that, according to the Imperial College foresight study, will have a disruptive impact beyond 2040 let’s now consider the one related to extreme automation: Swarm robotics, Battlefield robots and AI board members and politicians. Swarm Robotics Robots are becoming more and more autonomous. At the same time …

Most people are not fond of cockroaches, many are decidedly averse to the point of trying to smash them if they see one scuttling around in their kitchen (with varying degree of success). Scientists, on the other hand are fascinated by roaches and try to learn from them. A cockroach …

One of the potential of 5G is its capability to hand over the control of communications resources to applications/users. These can self organise their network capabilities/resources. To what extent this will happen remains to be seen, since Network Operators are not likely to open up their network resources. Network slicing …

We are used to amazing sights, like the one in the picture with thousands of starlings performing complex choreographies and we are temped to ask ourselves who is in charge for that? Is there a “master” starling directing the choreography? Similarly if we look at a swarm of bees. The …

Emergent PropertiesTechnologies The relations among the various components (physical and behavioural) of a Symbiotic Autonomous System are perceived by the context as its emergent properties. Interaction with other systems and with the environment takes place through these emergent properties, since they are characterising the SAS. An emergent property is a …